Tag: Vampire Weekend

I know I’ve been procrastinating the blog and the sharing of music that really does bring me pleasure. Why do I not do it then? Well, I’m a very good procrastinator, and… well that’s all I got at the moment. This year, as with last, some of my favorite finds have been unearthed by tracking down the tunes to the TV show Chuck. I always look forward to that show, if for the music alone. Actually recently the soundtrack has outshone the plot by quite a few kilowatts.

Caveat: You’ll notice my “best of” mixes have nothing to do with actual “best” albums/songs, but rather what I liked best or rather what I like at this very moment better than the others. This is completely arbitrary to my personal taste and preference.

You can download the entire mix by clicking – HERE. (As with last years mix – it doesn’t fit on a standard CD-R, I was too lazy to whittle it down (again) and I couldn’t delete a couple songs, so if you want to fit it, you’ll have to pick a couple to remove before burning, if you still use those archaic discs.)

I usually don’t list my favorite albums, but without thinking terribly hard about it – off the top of my head the ones that stand out to me in the last year are (in no particular order):

I just stumbled across this video this week and really enjoyed the vibrant Summer feel that evokes and that’s pretty much what I needed as the local weather here has jumped from spring straight into winter. We haven’t had much of an Autumn and the cold that has moved in this week has felt all too sudden. This tune features Kid Cudi, Best Coast and Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend. I have to say that it’s a fine grouping of musical talents and the outcome is synergetic. The song was released through Converse – the shoe company, which has recently opened a music studio.